(Fwd) Re: african bone tools

[georgejayne]

Dear Alice,

You may want to look at the Daima Phase I/II/III bone tool assemblage in
Central West Africa (in particular south of Lake Chad). Within this
assemblage are mainly bone harpoons and spatualate tools. Nothing decorated.
These bone tools were found within the excavation of the Kursakata Mound in
1965. You may want to look at:

Connah, G. 1981. Three Thousand Years in Africa. Cambridge. Cambridge
University Press. p99-145.

Good luck,


George


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>From: Alice Choyke <h13017cho at helka.iif.hu>
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>Subject: (Fwd) Re: african bone tools
>Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 8:20 pm
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>Alice Choyke wrote:
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>>        Can anyone help me with information on bone tool assemblages from
>>Africa. I have to write a small article on this subject and except for some
>>Middle Paleolithic stuff from South Africa and the Kalambo Falls material I
>>have no idea what work has been done. I have worked on material from
>>Kermo but there must be something inbetween.
>>
>Bone tools are not uncommon in MSA and LSA sites in Sub-Saharan Africa,
>and in Upper Palaeolithic, Epi-Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites in North
>Africa. I don't know of any overall synthesis; I suspect it will be a
>matter of trawling through individual excavation reports. There was also
>widespread use of shells (marine, freshwater and ostrich egg) for
>toolmaking.
>
>Two recent articles that may be of interest (since they are crucial to
>the debate on the origin of H. sapiens) are:
>
>Science 268 (1995): 495-6, 548-56 -- on the dating of the Katanda barbed
>points.
>
>Before Farming 2002/2 (3): 1-16 -- on the Broken Hill (Kabwe Cave) finds.
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>C
>
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